Vehicle-tire and fastening therefor.



PATENTED MAY-15,1903.

M. GONNABLB.

VEHICLE TIRE AND PASTE APPLIOATION FILED FE NING THEREEOR.

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UNTTBD STATES Patented May 5, 1903.

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PATENT VEHICLE-TIRE.' AND FASTENING THEREFR;

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 727,296, dated May 5, 1903.

Application tied February 18,1903. serial ne. 143.890. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom, Vit 71mg] concern.-

Be it known that I, RALPH M. CONNABLE,

a citizen of the United States, residing at.

Baltimore, State of Maryland, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Ye;V hicle-Tires and Fastenings Therefor, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements inl elastic vehicle-tires and fastenings therefor; and its object is to provide an improved construction of tire and tirefastening which will produce a secure fastening of the tire on the vehicle-Wheel andvprevent the tire from 4becoming disengaged in use, especially guarding against any sidewise or torsional strainl to which the tire may be subjected. The invention consists of certain constructions and arrangements of parts hereinafter fully described and claimed, reference being had to the accompanying drawings,in which- Figure l is atransverse sectionalview Ytaken through the felly of a vehicle-Wheel" slightly-modified forms of the tire! Fig. 7,isV

a longitudinal view, partly in section, on'the line 7 7 of Fig. 6.

Referring to the drawings, the letter a designates the felly of a vehicle-wheel, to which l is secured a channeled rim Z9, Fig.v 1, for the reception of the elastic tire-c.V The said tire" is seated in said rim and is retained thereon against outward displacement, in this" instance by bands ortie-wires CZ, engaging the upper side of outwardly extending side flanges e at the base of the tire, and the tire is compressed outwardly against said retaining means by pressing devices comprising in this instance a band f, interposed between the base of the tire and the bottom of the channeled rim, said band being pressed outwardly against the base of the tire by a plurality of threaded bolts C, working through the felly ct and the channeled rim, as illustrated in the drawings. l

Fig. 2.illustrates the retaining means as Fig. 3 is a longitudinalH produced by the inwardly-extending edges b2 ofthe channeled rim b' instead of the tiewires CZ. y

Prior patents, Nos. 712,179 and 715,987, granted to me October 28, 1902, and December 16, 1902, respectively, and my pending application, Serial No. 141,837, filed February 4, 1903, all describe and claim various embodiments of the inventive idea thus far setforthin the detaildescription of this speci- 'firmly secured to the vehicle-wheel, and especially insuring against displacement by any sidewise or torsional strainrto which the tire may be subjected. To this end,'ther`efore, I

have provided, as illustratedfin Figs. l, 2, 8,

and 4, a tire with side flanges e, inv which are molded or otherwise embedded near the upper corners or edges stiffening or resistance devices in the form of circumferentially or longitudinally extending lengths of wire with their ends close together, as shown in Fig. 3. Then such a tire is applied to the channeled rim of,v the vehicle-wheel, said resistance-wires Z have such positionthat the retaining means, suchas the wires d or rim edges b2, lie between said resistance-wires and the body or tread c of the tire, and hence any sidewise or torsional strain on the'latter'a't any point is met and resisted bysa'id wires Z, and their comparatively long and sti bearing-surface prevents the tire from being pulled out'from .under the retaining means. It isobvious thatv the resistance-wires Z may be made continuous or in one piece instead of a plurality of lengths.

As shown in Fig. 5, the resistance devices may be stri ps of sheet metal Z', vertically elongated or of rectangular or other cross-sec` tional shape, and, it' desired, one resistancewire Z2 may be joined to the opposite Wire by any desired number of transverse bars m, as illustrated in Figs. 6 and 7.

It is to be understood that my invention is IOC an elastic tire in said rim; retaining means holding said tire in the rim against outward displacement; and circumt'erentially-extending stiiening or resistance devices embedded in the tire between the retaining means and the side of the rim, as and for the purpose set forth.

2. The combination with a vehicle-wheel having a channeled rim, of a tire seated in said rim and provided with side flanges having resistance-wires embedded therein at the upper outer corners thereof; and retaining means holding the tire against outward displacement and located between said resistance-wires and the tread of the tire, as and for the purpose set forth.

3. The combination with a vehicle-wheel having a channeled rim, of a tire seated in said rim and provided with side flanges having resistance-Wires embedded therein at the upper outer corners thereof; retaining means holding the tire against outward displacement and located between said resistance- Wires and the tread of. lthe tire; and means for compressing the tire outwardly against said retaining means, as set forth.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

RALPH M. ooNNARLE.

Witnesses:

H. F. MEYER, Jr.,

FREDERICK S. STITT. 

